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Philosophical Background “I fight against suffering, sorrow and
wars with and without my music on a level similar to malakut. Within me there is an irrepressible
sympathy with those living in the circle of life and an insurmountable propensity
for asceticism. My philosophy is not without parallels,
since – apart from music – I have been engaged in the religions, cultures,
arts and symbols of different peoples since I was a child. I am strongly
influenced by shamanism, Bon, universalism, Taoism, the Vedas, Sufism, the
Tibetan, the Egyptian and other Books of the Dead, Ajurveda, Buddhism,
Tibetan and other mysticism, tales, legends, myths of origin, different forms
of meditation and conscious dreaming. The relationships behind these concepts
reinforced me in my ideas, and rule my life in a non-dogmatic way. For me,
religion is philosophy, something pliable and on no account untouchable. It
is something to be thought about intensely, but never torn from its context. A part of it – lacking the communities
giving birth to it – we cannot experience anymore. The above ideas help me try to find, get
to know and control the human soul – my own and our general one. With my
music I am looking for the voice of our common human spirit. I try to shape and be shaped by being
tuned to our collective consciousness and subconscious. I want to awake and
preserve our common global cultural past, the proof of which for me are the
pentatonic scale, shamanism, the drum, the bow, music, tales, ritual sacrifice,
ecstasy or dance, which appear on each and every continent. This global
network is to be actualized and rationalized. One of my further aims is to draw
attention to the importance of family, identity, culture and traditions,
religion, nature, nature peoples and their knowledge, and – on my own level –
to do something for these. In my view, not the above beliefs but
all other assumptions are naive and idealistic, since historically speaking,
these are the ones most closely related to us, and thus the ones to be used
as building stones. Any science, theory or art that disregards these is
totally alienated from man and nature. Music, for me, is healing,
concentration, focus, meditation, a state of trance, magic, a change of
consciousness, the collective unconscious (Akasha, psi field), a walk in the
under- and higher worlds, breaking the nutshell of the subconscious, meeting
my ancestors, prayer, something similar to dreamtime. – the map of my
identity, entity and thoughts. It is sensing and transmitting the seemingly
imperceptible. A constant change expressing the eternal. Music is vibration;
vibration is the basic nature of existence. The soul is vibration, vibration
is soul, the soul is music. Practice makes the instinctive conscious
and the conscious instinctive. My music and my violin is a way of life, a
part of my body, my spirit; and I a part of the whole.” /Milan Bajovich/ Malakut Malakut is an Arabic word originating in
Islamic and Sufi culture, where it designates the world of primeval images.
It is not a rationally expressible and understandable word but a state of
mind – we might be in malakut while dreaming or after death, for instance. It is a world reigned over by spiritual
intellect, mental and sense perception. It is the spiritual part of the middle
world, the physical being al mulk. It is one of the levels on our way to
God. It makes one realize that metaphor is
more important than a simple one-way connection. The soul and the
consciousness need metaphors and symbols too. 
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